Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints